Omnivore - Dining with tofu haters at Cho Sun Ok

Visiting one of Atlanta’s oldest Korean restaurants

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I wish people would get over their tofu revulsion. It’s not that I didn’t share it years ago when I only ran into it in bad vegetarian restaurants. Then Korean restaurants began opening along Buford Highway, and I discovered tofu doesn’t have to taste like a gooey sponge for the bad seasonings vegetarian cooks of the time dumped in dishes, apparently to compensate for the absence of meat and flavorful veggies.

Last Friday night I was craving Korean tofu soup, and my dining pals instantly ruled out going to So Kong Dong or Cho Dang, where the soup is the specialty. They’d proposed going to another Korean barbecue place, since they liked Hae Woon Dae when we dined there some time back. (They also liked the bibimbap at Woo Nam Jeong Stone Bowl.)